Ebenaceae
Plant
The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to order Ericales. The family includes ebony and persimmon among about 768 species of trees and shrubs. It is distributed across the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. Wikipedia
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a family of plants (order Ebenales) comprising trees and shrubs (such as the ebony and persimmon) with very hard wood, entire leaves, and dioecious or ...
Shrubs or trees, sap watery. Leaves alternate [rarely opposite or whorled], simple; stipules absent; petiole present; blade margins entire. Inflorescences ...
Flowers are typically solitary with numerous stamens and 2–10 fused carpels; the fruit is a capsule or dry drupe. It is within this family that the economically ...
The fruits are round and slightly flattened in shape, three to five inches in diameter, with greenish skin, and a four-lobed leafy calix around their stem that ...
General Distribution: Common persimmon is found throughout the eastern and central United States, from New York west to Iowa and Nebraska and south to Texas ...
Habit: Tree [shrub], generally dioecious. Leaf: alternate, simple, petioled, entire; stipules 0. Inflorescence: axillary cyme or flower 1. ... Fruit: berry [ ...